[2] Aspinall is a classically trained violinist, having graduated from the Royal College of Music, London, in the late 1970s.
[citation needed] She was a member of Jam Today, a part of the Women's Music Movement that developed in the late 1970s, playing a hybrid of jazz and rock similar in approach to groups like Henry Cow.
[3] She joined the Raincoats after she noticed an advertisement which read "female musician wanted - strength not style" in radical bookshop Compendium in Camden Town.
[4] She has been credited, by Gina Birch of the Raincoats, with making the band more aware of feminist ideas.
[5] Aspinall and Birch later formed the band Dorothy which was subsequently signed by Geoff Travis to Chrysalis Records.